Former Ybor City Brewery Mixes Past with Future in Tampa

Once the Florida Brewing Company and home of La Tropical beer, the 19th-century industrial building on the corner of Nuccio Parkway and East 5th Avenue has been restored into one of Tampa’s most professional office spaces.

If walls could talk, those at the former Florida Brewing Company building in Ybor City would speak volumes. The six-story red-brick landmark is an architectural time capsule, a 19th-century industrial building serving today as one of Tampa’s most modern professional office complexes. Standing sentinel at the corner of Nuccio Parkway and East 5th Avenue, the Victorian-era edifice opened in 1896 as the tallest building in Florida and remains the tallest in Ybor City.